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VPNs are for privacy, not anonymity. Confuse the two are your own peril - the Grugq The only trustworthy VPN service is one that you operate yourself. There ar

VPNs are for privacy, not anonymity. Confuse the two are your own peril - the Grugq The only trustworthy VPN service is one that you operate yourself. There are plenty of Github projects that will deploy a personal VPN for you: https://github.com/jlund/streisand https://github.com/jlund/streisand https://github.com/trailofbits/algo https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

bjt2n3904 9y ago
What's to stop digital ocean / AWS from enumerating small servers that are listening on VPN ports and nothing else, then doing the same thing Comcast and Verizon are doing? Further more, what makes you think they aren't?
- LastZactionHero 9y ago
  Maybe they are, but I suspect they have different incentives. If I discover that they're singling out my $5/mo VPN server for monitoring, the rest of my $1500/mo is moving to another company.
- sr2 9y ago
  What's to stop someone renting an offshore VPS, like say, in somewhere like Hong Kong[0], and that isn't part of the 'fourteen eyes' spying alliance? [0] https://privacytoolsio.github.io/privacytools.io/#vpn https://privacytoolsio.github.io/privacytools.io/#vpn Also what's to stop someone stacking anonymously-bought VPNs on top of each other (proxy chaining) similar to how onion routing works, and creating their own homebrew Tor? If the VPN provider is peeking at the logs (which it shouldn't be doing), then all they see is another VPN IP. VPNception! (Something like the SHALON[1] technique is useful for this, for example): ------------ > Abstract—In this paper, we introduce a novel lightweight anonymization technique called Shalon. It is based on onion routing, aims to reduce complexity, and delivers high bandwidth. We have, compared to the widely known approach Tor, slightly reduced the level of security in favor for greatly increased performance. > The most significant advantage compared to other approaches is that Shalon is fully based on standardized protocols, which makes our approach highly efficient and easy to deploy. It also makes Shalon easier to understand for normal users, eases protocol reviews, and increases the chance of having several implementations of Shalon available. In this work, we provide a description of the design and implementation of Shalon, a performance and anonymity analysis, and a discussion on the scalability properties. [1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6f30/f14ff4972ddd787bf7e8590bfcdaf8df3414.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6f30/f14ff4972ddd787bf7e859...

bjt2n3904 9y ago

What's to stop digital ocean / AWS from enumerating small servers that are listening on VPN ports and nothing else, then doing the same thing Comcast and Verizon are doing? Further more, what makes you think they aren't?

LastZactionHero 9y ago
Maybe they are, but I suspect they have different incentives. If I discover that they're singling out my $5/mo VPN server for monitoring, the rest of my $1500/mo is moving to another company.
sr2 9y ago
What's to stop someone renting an offshore VPS, like say, in somewhere like Hong Kong[0], and that isn't part of the 'fourteen eyes' spying alliance? [0] https://privacytoolsio.github.io/privacytools.io/#vpn https://privacytoolsio.github.io/privacytools.io/#vpn Also what's to stop someone stacking anonymously-bought VPNs on top of each other (proxy chaining) similar to how onion routing works, and creating their own homebrew Tor? If the VPN provider is peeking at the logs (which it shouldn't be doing), then all they see is another VPN IP. VPNception! (Something like the SHALON[1] technique is useful for this, for example): ------------ > Abstract—In this paper, we introduce a novel lightweight anonymization technique called Shalon. It is based on onion routing, aims to reduce complexity, and delivers high bandwidth. We have, compared to the widely known approach Tor, slightly reduced the level of security in favor for greatly increased performance. > The most significant advantage compared to other approaches is that Shalon is fully based on standardized protocols, which makes our approach highly efficient and easy to deploy. It also makes Shalon easier to understand for normal users, eases protocol reviews, and increases the chance of having several implementations of Shalon available. In this work, we provide a description of the design and implementation of Shalon, a performance and anonymity analysis, and a discussion on the scalability properties. [1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6f30/f14ff4972ddd787bf7e8590bfcdaf8df3414.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6f30/f14ff4972ddd787bf7e859...